Shoe-stretcher.



P. VOGEL.

SHOE STRBTGHER. APPLICATION FILED Nov.1a, 191s.

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Patented June 23, 1914.

FELIX VOGEL, OF .ALTONA, GERMANY.

SHOE-STRETCHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led November 18, 1913.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Serial No. 801,640.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX VOGEL, asubject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Altona-on-the-Elbe, Germany, have invented a new and useful Shoe-Stretcher, of which the following is a speoiiication.

The object of the invention is a stretcher for shoes or boots.

In the drawing a form of construction of the stretcher is represented.

Figure l shows a perspective view of the stretcher, being in the interior of a boot, shown by dotted lines. Fig. 2 shows a front view of the stretcher and the boot is shown in dotted lines. Y

The stretcher consists of a wooden angular piece a of suitable form and size. On this Wooden piece an arm I is pivoted by a hinge o. The wooden piece a possesses a series of notches d. A frame e made of wire, having coils el and a handle e2, arranged on the exterior of the shoe, serves to press the bottom or sole of the boot upwardly; whereas the lower end of arm Z) andthe lower end of the wooden piece a press, in the interior Gopies of this pstons may bs obtained for of the boot, the front and back part of the boot downwardly. In this manner the boot remains in a stretched position and the folded leather retains its original form without folds. The coils e serve to render the wire elastic and the series of notches l can be used for regulating the pressure of the wire frame e.

I claim:

A stretcher for shoes, comprising in coinbination, an angular wooden piece arranged to be positioned in a shoe and having an upper end provided with a series of notches, an arm pivoted to the rear face of said upper end, and a frame of elastic wire having a plurality of coils, the frame being arranged to surround the exterior of a shoe and to engage the sole with its lower middle portion and the upper middle portion of said frame arranged to engage one of saidI notches.

FELIX VOGEL. Witnesses:

ELISABETH EHM, MARTIN GLSING.

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